After each major gun incident pundits revisit the debate: Are mass shooters mentally ill? Conservatives and gun owners s claim that mental illness is the real problem, not the prevalence of gun ownership. Of course, statistics and common sense refute this illogical...

Recently some have wondered: Do psychologists have a “duty to warn” about Trump’s dangerous emotional state? Some have made comments criticizing the fact that I am a contributor to the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and...

I watched in dismay as Donald Trump won the presidential election. As a psychotherapist, it is clear to me that Trump is psychologically unfit for office. His flagrant insecurity was exposed with each bragging Tweet, his rampant sociopathic bullying was on view at...

Followers of Donald J. Trump often exclaim they like him because “he says it like it is“ and he is against “political correctness.” Certainly the content of Trump’s outspokenness confirms this, as his statements during the campaign were often bigoted, incited hate and...

A blog on “What Mass Killers Really Have in Common” asserts that to prevent domestic terrorists and mass killers we should scrutinize those who commit domestic violence. It posits that it is the patriarchal attitudes these men have toward women that also cause them to...

Brock Allen Turner was convicted of raping an unconscious young woman behind a Dumpster, and this white college athlete only received 6 months in jail, rather than the 14-year maximum sentence he could have received. Seems as if the judge agreed with the letter...